Pairing and Payloads

[benjamindaass]

Hi there,
I'm a bit of a dummy. I've been trying to use diyHue to control my lights and was told I need to use z2m with my particular lights.
I have installed the mosquitto broker and z2m, both as systemd modules (this is raspian OS on a pi 5), and both are running fine without errors. watching the log file for z2m shows it putting out a payload every 10 minutes.
But I don't actually understand how to pair the devices to the pi/z2m. One of my two lights is this one:
https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/devices/8719514329843.html
So, for example, the section of that page titled, "Touchlink reset by serial numbers"... I don't understand where the payload goes. Do I just throw it in the bottom of my configuration.yaml file? Is there a different file or a way to open a CLI within z2m?
Sorry if these are really stupid questions. I've read through the docs and installation and execution of the program are working great. I just don't understand how to control the program. How to send payloads or how to even access the frontend. All I have is the program running as a daemon without errors, and the ability to monitor the log file.
Thank you in advance.

[andrei-lazarov]

Start by enabling the Zigbee2MQTT user interface. Add this to your Z2M configuration.yaml, (and restart of course):

frontend:
  enabled: true
  port: 8080
  package: zigbee2mqtt-windfront

Then hopefully you can access raspberry_ip_address:8080 from your computer.
(of course replace the port if already used)

If it works well, you can just use the interface.
Touchlink -> Philips Hue reset -> Input serial number of the bulb you want to reset right now.
(You can reset multiple at the same time, if you enter multiple serial numbers)

The bulb needs to be powered-on, and very close to the coordinator (less than 1m).
This feature is supported only by Texas Instruments and Silicon Labs Zigbee adapters.

The bulb should flash. Press Permit join and it should join the network.

[benjamindaass]

Thank you so much. I must have missed a step in the onboarding process. Will try as soon as I get home, thank you again!!

[benjamindaass]

Yeah you nailed it. I'm a bit embarrassed I looked at that config.yaml file so many times and didn't notice "frontend: enabled: false". Thank you so much.